Luca’s Inferno by Karima Sa’ad Usman

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Emma. 

“Don’t forget about me, Emma,” Declan told me, and I woke up from my sleep again, panting. I had dreamt about Declan for three years. I kept a journal and wondered about the tricks my mind was playing. Was it real or a figment of my imagination? 

My real life was trash. Being from a low family in a pack was difficult because I had to be submissive every time. It was in my nature, and I hated it. Most of the time, I’d walk away from problems to avoid being rude or offensive. It wasn’t easy, but that was the card life dealt me. I had four loving brothers, a depressed mother and a father with a gambling problem. They all showed their love the best way they could, and I never asked for too much. Asking for too much would make me disappointed. 

Being a pretty woman, the eldest son of the beta family of our pack, Tomas Jefferson, took a liking to me. We had been dating for four years. I was hoping he would pop the questions soon, but I wasn’t going to hold my breath for it. A lot was in play where our relationship was concerned, and people often said he could do better. Tomas always shut them up by proving his undying love. I had often been tempted to compare him to mysterious Declan, but I knew that would be wrong. The man in my dreams was very unrealistic. 

anyone, and I doubted I ever would. Living in fantasy was borderline behaviour, and I didn’t want anyone to call me out on

Heather said she had seen him around. Being from a low family herself, she did not dare to ask him why he was making himself scarce. I did not dare go to the beta’s house uninvited; I might be punished for it. Tomas has to take me there or invite me. My pack was that fucked up, and they took the hierarchy breed thing too damn seriously. If it

and to my surprise, he answered. I

me with

he asked, and I

Tomas. Why?” I asked him, and he sighed

before I could say anything else, he hung up. Before he hung up, I heard his friend’s voice in the background, asking him to hurry. I wondered what they were up to. I could never know because I wasn’t

get ready for the day. I was still job hunting and had an interview lined up for the afternoon. While in the shower, I thought of Tomas’s behaviour. It was unfair. No matter how busy he was, he had no right to treat me the way he had in these two

him severally why he was unwilling to take the step, and he always avoided answering the question altogether. I decided I needed to give him an ultimatum. We weren’t getting any younger; most of the people that got together when we did were married with children. We met when I was nineteen. I was now twenty-three, and we were still in the early stages of our relationship, fixed to one spot, unmoving.

this, claiming I am aiming higher than my status. Some even say I am trying to raise my family’s status by snagging a rich guy, but none of those things ever got to me. Tomas showed me that he genuinely loved me, and I knew

intimidated and highly submissive. My mother always told me there can’t be a leader without followers. One day they will come to understand our relevance. Cross-breeding between the higher and lower breeds was kicked against, but some people still scaled through it and got together; that was why

they became influential and made a lot of money, but the higher families

They always had money or someone

their family from the ground. My father was caught in that world, sadly making him an addict. He had gambled everything away. Our family used to have enough. We weren’t rich, but we were okay. My father gambled us into destitution, and

for him not to want to move our relationship forward. I decided I was going to give him an

primarily because of my status. Most firms were uncomfortable hiring people like me for critical positions in their company. They claimed I would not have the confidence and authority needed for the job. How the fuck was my family going to escape poverty if we were